245034/1947 - Babcock & Wilcox No. P4937 - Industrial Green, with Wasp Stripes - DCC Sound Fitted Wagon Type_MDW 21 Ton Hopper Windscreen wipers

Windscreen wipers

It has been based at the Weardale Railway ever since

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with bodyside windows still in situ

2mm Gauge Drop-In Wheel Sets suitable for the Accurascale Class 37 locomotive

245034/1947 - Babcock & Wilcox No. P4937 - Industrial Green, with Wasp Stripes - DCC Sound Fitted Wagon Type_MDW 21 Ton Hopper Windscreen wipersRuston 245034 was built new for the firm of Babcox & Wilcox Ltd in Refrewshire, leaving the works on 1 December 1947, where it was part of a fleet of 88DS utilised by the Boilermakers. The works opened in 1895 and covered 180 acres, one of the largest boiler making works in the world at the time, which was accessed from the 3 mile long Paisley & Renfrew line running from the east bank of the River Cart at Paisley to a wharf at Renfrew on the south